Guest on 2007-02-25 06:20:20 wrote:Hi there!thanks a lot for that release. I'm a total newbie to Linux and I installed Xubuntu 6.10 alternate CD on my system but the mga drivers of the cd lead to a screen signal my monitor interpreted as &quot;out of range&quot; after changing to vesa driver through reconfiguration and a long research throug the net I found those drivers! They definitly should be embededd in next release to protect people from the frustration I experienced by my first linux contact ;-)Thanks for that great piece of work!Claas

Alexander Griesser on 2007-02-25 23:20:52 wrote:Thank you for your comment.

Well, they won't include this driver as they also do notinclude Matrox' official driver. The reason for this simplyis, that the Matrox driver isn't completely open sourceand that the vital part of this driver (the mga_hal library)may not be repackaged and redistributed.

Unfortunately, the xorg mga driver - the one you getwhen you install ubuntu - has dropped the support forthe mga_hal library completely in one of the latestreleases. Before this, it was possible to use thexorg mga driver and simply download the mga_halfrom Matrox and you're done, but now it's a littlebit more complicated.

As you already said, this basically comes down to frustrating new users, but that's not a fault ofUbuntu or any other distribution, but of politics.

Alexander Griesser on 2007-03-05 08:01:45 wrote:As mentioned above, mga_hal will need to be recompiled by Matrox to support Xorg 7.2.x without the ignoreABI workaround, so there's nothingI can do about that.

Guest on 2007-03-20 19:33:32 wrote:How do we download the drivers? When I click on the download url, it just opens the .run file in a text editor or something?

Keep up the great work. We are very upset about the closure of the unofficial forum, but keep going anyway.

Alexander Griesser on 2007-03-21 10:14:24 wrote:Ah, BTW: The "UN"official forum has not been closed, so there's no needto be upset about this :) The official forum has been closed, but I thinkyou meant that anyway.

Guest on 2007-03-21 19:47:49 wrote:Sorry my bad. I meant the official forum - my concern is that I suppose there is no longer any access to the previous content (i.e. no archive??) . You and others had some brilliant advice there. When you say the UNoffical forum is still available, do you mean here, or some place else!

Richard

Guest on 2007-03-21 19:49:58 wrote:Wow silly me. I found the link in your pages DUH!! My point about the loss of valuable material in the offical forum still stands...

I definetly should do some advertising on this... As to the "loss of knowledge" by the demised officialforum:

Fact is, that most of the really valuable content camefrom me and this knowledge has been ported to thenew unofficial forum in person, so currently, we arebuilding up the knowledge base. Everything that isn'talready covered gets asked in new topics and willget answered - to the maximum extent that is possibleto me.

So, of course closing a forum instead of setting itread-only is _VERY_ bad, but that's Matrox.

Guest on 2007-05-23 09:46:56 wrote:The bash script above does not run on FreeBSD.

JFYI: The installer scripts are makeself scripts, so it is very easy to getthe tar.gz file out of them. Simply open them with your favourite text editor,scroll down to the line that looks like binary data (currently, it's about line377). Delete all that doesn't look like binary data, e.g. the first 377 linesand save this file. Now it is a .tar.gz file, simply rename it to something.tar.gzand you can extract it.